MacArthur Fellows include alumni Robert Irwin, Kerry James Marshall ('78) and David Hammons ('72).
Additional Individual Awards
Dawn Baillie (’86)
Saul Bass Award, Hollywood Reporter’s annual Key Art Awards
Juliette Bellocq, Graphic Design faculty member
Included in Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual for book design
Lori Choi, Emily Keifer and Rodrigo Zayas, Architecture/Landscape/Interiors
Honorable Mention in the L.A. Business Council’s 2012 Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Award Design Charrette
Julianne Eckert (’09)
L.A. Stop Motion Film Award
Christopher Fong, '13 Product Design
2013 Windgate Fellow in mixed media/product design by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.
Renee A. Fox (’02)
CBS Best Art Curators of Los Angeles
Peter Gadol (Chair, MFA Writing)
NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
Diane Gamboa (’84) and Maryrose Mendoza (’85)
L.A. Artists Fellowship Laboratory Exhibition for experimental, site-specific public artworks
Berton Hasebe (’05)
Best New Visual Artist, 2012
Catherine Hernandez, Architecture/Landscape/Interiors Students
Illuminating Engineering Society Russell Cole Lighting Design Competition
Emi Ichikawa (Product Design ’15)
2015 Windgate Fellowship Award
Jade Lai (’02)
2012's Top 20 Tastemakers by Surface Magazine
Chloe Leung (’12, Product Design)
Grand prize and people’s choice awards in the annual design competition
Kerry James Marshall ('78)
Elected to President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
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George Martinez and Eric Nishioka
One Club Young Ones Competition
Alan Nakagawa (’86) and Mario Ybarra Jr. (’99)
Mid-career Visual Artist Fellowships, City of L.A.
Matt Nava (’08)
Five BAFTA Awards
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS)
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)’s ITP
Amazon’s 20 Top Games of 2012
Game City Prize
Spike Video’s Video Game Awards
Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30: The Brightest Young Stars in Video Games”
Wendy Pham
Finalist in the Computer Graphics Student of the Year International Competition
Alison Saar (’81 MFA)
US Artists Grant
Joy Scopa Graduate Graphic Design student
2013 OUTPUT competition
Jessica Silverman (’05)
30 under 30 influential arts professionals
Holly Tempo, Fine Arts faculty member
2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Khoi Vinh ('93)
50 Most Influential Designers in America, 2011
Victor Yates' ('14 MFA Writing)
Debut novel, A Love Like Blood, received the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction in 2016
Daniel Zhang
Cut&Paste LA 2012
Raymond Zibach (’90)
Academy Award nomination for “Kung Fu Panda”